Yadier Molina is a Puerto Rican professional baseball catcher for the St. Louis Cardinals of Major League Baseball (MLB), with whom he has played his entire 19-year MLB career.
During the Cardinals’ pennant-winning season in 2004, Molina was given his Major League debut after incumbent catcher Matheny landed on the disabled list (DL) with a strained rib. On June 3, Yadier Molina made his Major League Baseball debut.
On August 7, he had one of his first game-winning hits. In the bottom of the ninth inning against the New York Mets, he hit a broken-bat single to shallow center field.
When Molina took a complete swing at the outfield wall, center fielder Mike Cameron started running towards the wall, not realizing that he had only made a partial impact due to the broken bat.
Jim Edmonds was able to score when Cameron charged the ball; it fell in for a hit. The Cardinals beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 6–4 three weeks later (August 29) owing to two distinct plays in which Molina tagged out the runner at home plate, including a collision with Ty Wigginton.
He played 51 games in the regular season, with an average of .220. At the plate, I hit.267 with two home runs and 15 RBIs over the course of 151 trips. He threw out more than half of the base-stealers he faced in his first appearance (nine of 17).
Yadier Molina Parents: Meet Benjamín Molina, Sr.And Gladys Matta
Baseball player, Yadier Molina was born o his parents Benjamin Molina (father) and Gladys Matta (mother). Yadier’s father, Benjamin was an amateur second baseman and the all-time hits leader in Puerto Rican baseball.
His parents later had two children who are also baseball personalities.